Strigamia chionophila Wood 1862

• Main Authors: Bonato, Lucio, Dányi, László, Socci, Antonio Augusto, Minelli, Alessandro
• Format: Text
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• Published: Zenodo 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Chilopoda; Geophilomorpha; Linotaeniidae; Strigamia; Strigamia chionophila; Canada; Pacific; Augusto; McNeill; Subarctic; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5613197; https://zenodo.org/record/5613197

Strigamia chionophila Wood, 1862 Synonym: Linotaenia miuropus Chamberlin, 1902. References for morphology: Meinert 1886; McNeill 1888; Chamberlin 1902 (sub Linotaenia miuropus ), 1911, 1912 a; Johnson 1952. Taxonomic notes. Described originally as a species of Strigamia , it was assigned subsequently to Linotaenia, Scolioplanes or Tomotaenia , until the classification under Strigamia prevailed after Crabill (1954 b). It was suspected to be identical to S. acuminata (Chamberlin 1920, 1923, 1925; Eason 1964), but most authors maintained it as a distinct species and assigned many new specimens to it. After direct examination of American and European specimens confidently representative of S. chionophila and S. acuminata respectively, we confirm that the two species differ consistently in the presence vs. absence of sulci between the pretergite and the intercalary pleurites of the ultimate leg-bearing segment, which is one of the major interspecific characters in the genus (Table 1). Linotaenia miuropus was described by Chamberlin (1902), cited under Scolioplanes by Attems (1929) and synonymized under S. chionophila by the same Chamberlin (1925, 1961). Distribution: northern and western part of North America, northwards to subarctic regions of Alaska and Canada, southwards to California along the Rocky Mountains, Kentucky and Virginia; extending westwards through the Aleutian Islands to at least the Behring Island. Published records of S. acuminata from Japan could actually refer to S. chionophila . : Published as part of Bonato, Lucio, Dányi, László, Socci, Antonio Augusto & Minelli, Alessandro, 2012, Species diversity of Strigamia Gray, 1843 (Chilopoda: Linotaeniidae): a preliminary synthesis, pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 3593 on page 11, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.214898 : {"references": ["Wood, H. C. (1862) On the Chilopoda of North America with a catalogue of all the specimens in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 5, 5 - 52.", "Chamberlin, R. V. (1902) Utah chilopods of the Geophilidae. American Naturalist, 36, 473 - 480.", "Meinert, F. (1886) Myriapoda Musei Cantabrigiensis. Part I. Chilopoda. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 23, 161 - 233.", "McNeill, J. (1888) A list, with brief descriptions of all the species, including one new to science, of Myriapoda of Franklin Co., Ind. Bulletin of the Brookville Society of Natural History, 3, 1 - 20.", "Johnson, B. M. (1952) The centipeds and millipeds of Michigan. University of Michigan, 488 pp.", "Crabill, R. E. (1954 b) Concerning the true identity of Strigamia fulva Sager and Strigamia bothriopa Wood (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Dignathodontidae). Entomological News, 65, 40 - 46.", "Chamberlin, R. V. (1920) Some records of Canadian Myriopods. Canadian Entomologist, 52, 94 - 95.", "Chamberlin, R. V. (1923) Chilopods of the Pribilof Islands. North American Fauna, 46, 240 - 244.", "Chamberlin, R. V. (1925) Notes on some centipeds and millipeds from Utah. Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 2, 55 - 63.", "Eason, E. H. (1964) Centipedes of the British Isles. Warne & Co., London, 294 pp.", "Attems, C. (1929) Myriapoda. 1. Geophilomorpha. Das Tierreich 52. De Gruyter, Berlin, 388 pp.", "Chamberlin, R. V. (1961) Notes on the geophilid chilopods of Utah. Entomological News, 72, 96 - 100."]}